Students register for classes through the Registrar’s website during their assigned access periods every semester. The Registration Information Sheet will tell you when you may register.
It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of registration deadlines and requirements. SPRING 2022 DEADLINES
Database of Course Syllabi and Instructor CVs - these are mainly undergraduate syllabi
You will see courses on the course schedule listed like this: CHE (w/f/s/n)000X
Check your Registration Information Sheet (RIS) for detailed information about any registration bars.
Tuition Remission is compensation provided by a University of Texas at Austin department in exchange for services and is subject to Federal Income and Social Security Withholding taxes. The total compensation, less taxes, is applied to your tuition balance. The remaining amount of your tuition balance is due as Tuition Remission. Students are responsible for paying tuition remission fees that do not appear on their tuition bill.
Tuition Remission is posted midway though each academic term, around the beginning of October for fall semester, February in the spring semester, and July for the summer term. These fees will appear in your What I Owe, not on your tuition bill.
The Graduate and International Admissions Center places a bar on your file if you have not yet provided an official transcript after you have accepted your offer. For more help with this bar, contact GIAC. Their detailed and helpful instructions are here.
Full-time registration for graduate students is 9 hours in fall, 9 hours in spring, 3 hours in summer.
If the student has been admitted to candidacy for a doctoral degree, registration in the dissertation course, CHE *99W, must be registered for continuously during the spring and fall semesters until the degree is completed. A minimum of 3 dissertation credits are required each long semester (fall and spring). The student may register for courses in addition to dissertation credits. For example, a third-year student who has entered candidacy might register for CHE 399W Dissertation, CHE 185 Seminar, CHE 285 Research, and CHE 398T Supervised Teaching.
Once you register for a full course load (9 credits) in the fall or summer for only dissertation, you will be automatically enrolled for 9 credits of dissertation for long semesters in the future. It's a safety feature so you don't accidentally forget to register the semester you plan to graduate. (Only works for long semesters though.)
Often, students who graduate are auto-registered for dissertation credits for the following long semester. To cancel your registration: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/reg/registration/cancel/
GRAs and TAs should request an employment tuition waiver every semester they are appointed as a GRA/TA. This will waive the out-of-state portion of their tuition bill for that semester, based on their employment status.
The UT Board of Regents requires that international students on F-1 and J-1 visas be covered by health insurance; therefore, international students receive automatic charges for health insurance on their tuition and fee bills. Students may request an insurance waiver if they are covered by an alternative insurance policy that meets the basic requirements of the UT Health Insurance Plan.
Students with GRA or TA assignments receive employee health insurance, which meets these basic requirements, and can apply for a waiver of the international health insurance fees.
Summer health insurance is placed on spring tuition bills. If you are graduating in the spring and will therefore not need summer health insurance, you will need to submit a special waiver, signed by the grad coordinator, to waive the summer insurance. Verification of Graduation Form.
Once students have registered and completed their waivers, everyone must view their tuition bill.
Registration is not complete until this bill is paid and students click the [CONFIRM ATTENDANCE] button in the tuition bill screen.
If students do not confirm attendance by the registration deadline, their registration will be cancelled and they will have to pay late registration fees to re-register. Attendance is confirmed when “your registration is complete” appears in the tuition bill screen.
Visit the Changing registration page for information on when and how you can change registration during the semester.
Q. Why is my tuition bill still so high?
A. Probably because you didn’t complete the waiver for in-state tuition. This is a particularly common reason for those of you switching from fellowship to GRA because you’re not used to this process.
Info about tuition waiver: https://gradschool.utexas.edu/finances/student-employment/resident-tuition-entitlement
Complete the tuition waiver in UTDirect here: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/acct/fb/waivers/
Q. Where is my final fellowship payment from the fall?
A. The final fellowship payment is held until you confirm attendance. If you are not receiving your fellowship payments, it is likely that you did not confirm attendance on the MyTuition page: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/acct/fb/my_tuition/my_tuition_home.WBX.
You will also need to be registered for 9 credit hours. You can fix your spring registration beginning mid-January. Find the specific date on the Academic Calendar. The registration system is closed until mid-January, so no one, not even the magical graduate coordinator, can fix your registration before the mid-January date. Note that the registration system is open all day the first day registration opens in January, but following days have limited hours. You can check your registration time with your Registration Information Sheet.
You may also need to pay any remaining fees. Everyone has different amounts, so I can’t give a blanket statement on fees here, but it shouldn’t be more than a few hundred dollars. If your fees are more than a few hundred dollars, ask the graduate coordinator before you pay out of pocket.
You may also need to complete your tuition waiver. Seriously, read the instructions, above.
Q. When will my tuition be paid?
A. As soon as possible! It will be complete before the deadline. Reminder, you may need to complete a tuition waiver. Please be kind to staff who make tuition payments. Note that payments frequently cannot be made until days before the deadline.